Improvement in supports for stencil-pens



VAN HOEVENBERGH 8L W. K. APPLEBAUGH.

Support for Stencil-Pens.

7 No. 203,390, Patented May 7,1878.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

HENRY VAN HOEVENBERGH, OF ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, AND WILLIAMK.'APPLEBAUGH, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT l NSUPPORTS FOR STENClL-PENS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,390, dated May 7,1878; application filed September 21, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY VAN HOEVEN- B'ERGH, of Elizabeth, in thecounty of Union and State of New Jersey, and WILLIAM K. APPLEBAUGH, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anImprovement in Supports for Stencil- Pens, of which the following is aspecification:

Pens have been made for perforating paper, in which a needle isreciprocated in a tube, and an electro-rnagnet or other device isemployed to move the needle. A pen of this character is shown in LettersPatent granted to T. A. Edison, August 8, 1876, N 0. 180,857. This penis heavy, and the hand becomes tired. Furthermore, the point of the penis often injured by contact with its stand or holder, and also by beinglaid down.

Our improvement is made for relieving the hand of weight when writing ordrawing with a heavy pen, for preventing injury to the pen, and, with anelectric pen, keeping the conductors entirely out of the way in writing.

In the drawing we have shown our improvement by a perspective view.

The heavy pen a is represented as similar to that in aforesaid patent.It may, however, be of any character that is liable to tire the hand. I

The weight of the pen is taken by the yieldin g support, consisting of aweight or spring. We have shown the spring I), from which the pen a issuspended by the flexible cords c, and the spring b is held in theVertical socket 6,

"so that it turns freely therein, and swings with the pen to the rightor to the left.

It is preferable to use a round wire spring, so that it will yield inall directions, and to use the stand of the battery-cups f to form the-socket e, and to employ flexible conductors,

wound around the spring and connected at the end of the spring, as themeans for suspending the pen, so that the electric current passesthrough these conductors to the electric engine upon the pen, to actuatethe perforatingneedle thereof.

By this construction the weight of the pen in the hand is lessened; andit is generally best to have the pen entirely above the paper by thespring, so that it will require to be pressed down upon the paper whenin use. The advantage of this is that the pen, when not in use, can beleft hanging, and it will be less liable to injury than when it is laiddown or put into a holder.

We claim as our invention- 1. The spring I), sustained at one end in thevertical socket, in combination with the suspending-cords andperforating-pen, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a perforating-pen and its electro-magnet, ofthe flexible conductors c and the spring I), for suspendin g the pen, asset forth.

Signed by us this 8th day of March, A. D. 187 7 HENRY VAN HOEVENBERGH.WILLIAM K. APPLEBAUGH.

Witnesses GEo. T. PINCKNEY, CHAS. H. SMITH.

